KJV:
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
NASB:
I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
KJV:
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
NASB:
For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;
KJV:
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
NASB:
I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,
KJV:
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
NASB:
Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.
KJV:
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
NASB:
So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
KJV:
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
NASB:
For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
KJV:
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
NASB:
But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.
KJV:
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
NASB:
If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,